James Reese (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1964
Place of Birth: Patchogue, New York, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About James Reese (author)
- James Reese is American author born on November 21, 1964 in Patchogue, New York.
- He attended the University of Notre Dame, and has an MA in Theatre from SUNY Stony Brook.
- Having lived in New Orleans and Key West, Florida, Reese now divides his time between St.
- Petersburg, Florida, and Paris, France. Reese’s first novel, The Book of Shadows (William Morrow and Company, 2002), appeared on the extended New York Times bestseller list.
- It tells the story of Herculine, a French hermaphrodite born on the Breton coast in 1806.
- Reese styled the book in accord with the conventions of both the nineteenth-century novel and Gothic fiction.
- Indeed, Reese cites the early Gothicists as his prime models, and The Book of Shadows incorporates supernatural elements with a mix of history and horror.Herculine’s story continued in The Book of Spirits (Wm.
- Morrow & Co., 2004) and concluded in The Witchery (Wm.
- Morrow & Co., 2006).
- In the former novel, Herculine arrives in Richmond, Virginia, in the years prior to the American Civil War and befriends a young Edgar Allan Poe and his sister, Rosalie.
- Events soon take Herculine to Havana, Cuba, and the Florida Keys, where The Witchery brings the Herculine Trilogy to a close. HarperCollins released Reese's The Dracula Dossier in October, 2008.
- Modeled on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the novel imagines an encounter between Stoker himself and Francis J.
- Tumblety, a real-life suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders.Reese’s books have been published in Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, and Spanish.
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